I don't sing (Maggie Furtak)

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•  Posted on 2024-04-20(Posted 2024-04-20)  CPDL #80334:     

Editor: Maggie Furtak (submitted 2024-04-20).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 130 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: I Don't Sing
Composer: Maggie Furtak
Lyricist: Katie Manye Julian of Norwich W. E. B. Du Bois ^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SSAA
Genre: Secular, Canon

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2024
Description: For four equal voices, a cappella, this will work equally well for men's or women's voices, or could be used for a mixed choir. Three voices are in canon for all but the end of the piece, while the last provides a verse in an additional musical layer. The score includes a piano reduction for rehearsal.

An excellent selection for a concert theme of civil rights, the text explores three different approaches to working toward justice: hands-on work in your community, peaceful self-sacrifice to earn respect and spread your message, and educating people about uncomfortable truths, so that they can base their future actions on an accurate picture of the situation.

External websites:

• https://youtu.be/9SxAATvbJG4?si=wtclVxtzIfsrMkXU

Original text and translations

English text

I don't sing for people who do not see me.
Katie Manye

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
Julian of Norwich

Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this…?
W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935)